PHOTOS: The Concord Food Co-op’s Kitchen on a Mission Series

Chef Mike Cook shows an audience of almost two hundred how to dice shallots for the herbed rice stuffing in the baked plum tomatoes recipe as part of the Concord Co-op's Kitchen on a Mission: Healthy Cooking Series at the Holiday Inn in Concord; Monday January 21, 2013.

Kinsy Harris sprinkles fresh basil onto samples of the stuffed plum tomatoes that chef Mike Cook made for a demonstration as part of the The Concord Food Co-op's Kitchen on a Mission: Healthy Cooking Series at the Holiday Inn in Concord; Monday January 21, 2013.

Chef Mike Cook shows an audience of almost two hundred how to dice shallots for the herbed rice stuffing in the baked plum tomatoes recipe as part of the Concord Co-op's Kitchen on a Mission: Healthy Cooking Series at the Holiday Inn in Concord; Monday January 21, 2013.

Chef Mike Cook shows an audience of almost two hundred how to cut the shallots as part of the herbed rice stuffing in the baked plum tomatoes recipe as part of the Concord Co-op's Kitchen on a Mission: Healthy Cooking Series at the Holiday Inn in Concord; Monday January 21, 2013.

Kinsy Harris sprinkles fresh basil onto samples of the stuffed plum tomatoes that chef Mike Cook made for a demonstration as part of the The Concord Food Co-op's Kitchen on a Mission: Healthy Cooking Series at the Holiday Inn in Concord; Monday January 21, 2013.

The Concord Food Co-op has been hosting the 10-week Kitchen on a Mission series for the past four years. Since they started, the program has grown from 30 attendees to more than 200 in the ballroom of the Holiday Inn in downtown Concord. On Monday, Co-op chef Mike Cook demonstrated a recipe for baked plum tomatoes with herbed rice stuffing, and nutritionist Hilary Warner, registered dietician, lectured about the benefits of eating whole grains.